John Arthur Rizzo, PhD
Professor of Economics, Cardiology & Preventive Medicine
Departments of Economics & Medicine
Director, Center for Health Services & Outcomes Research

Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

• BA, Economics (magna cum laude), University of New Hampshire, 1979
• MA, Economics, Brown University, 1980
• PhD, Economics, Brown University, 1985

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Microeconomic studies of physician and pharmaceutical markets
• Application of econometric methods to clinical outcomes research
• Pharmacoeconomic evaluations of medical treatments and technologies

SPECIAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS/RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Listed among top 50 health economists in world rankings for publications of health economics articles from 1991-2000 Ranked 15 th in total pages published (list published in May 2003 issue of Health Economics).
• Calem, P., and Rizzo, J. Competition and specialization in the hospital industry. Southern Economic Journal 61: 1182-1198, April 1995.
• Calem, P., and Rizzo, J. Financing constraints and investment: New evidence from hospital industry data. Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking 27: 1002-1014, November 1995.
• Rizzo, J., Darr U., Johnson, K., Coady, M., and Elefteriades, J. Thoracic aortic aneurysm: Moving beyond shadowboxing. Connecticut Chapter of the American College of Cardiology Newsletter, 1996.
• Rizzo, J. Economics and patient noncompliance -- Looking at the real world. Cardiology Review 13: 21-24, February 1996.
• Simons, W., Rizzo, J., Haim, M., and Zannad, F. Effect of improved disease management strategies on hospital length of stay and treatment of congestive heart failure. Clinical Therapeutics 18: 726-746, 1996.
• Rizzo, J., and Sindelar, J. Optimal regulation of multiply-regulated industries: The case of physician services. The Southern Economic Journal 62: 966-978, April 1996.
• Rizzo, J., Abbott, T., and Pashko, S. Labor productivity effects of prescribed medicines for chronically ill workers. Health Economics 5: 249-265, May 1996.
• Rizzo, J., Baker, D., McAvay, G., and Tinetti, M. The cost-effectiveness of a multifactorial targeted prevention program for falls among community elderly persons. Medical Care 34: 954- 969, September 1996.
• Rizzo, J., and Blumenthal, D. Is the target income hypothesis an economic heresy? Medical Care Research and Review 53: 243-266, September 1996.
• Rizzo, J., and Blumenthal, D. Reply to Professors McGuire and Reinhardt. Medical Care Research and Review 53: 288-293, September 1996.
• Coady M., Rizzo, J., Hammond, G., Mandapati, D., Darr, U., Kopf, G., and Elefteriades, J. What is the appropriate size criterion for resection of thoracic aortic aneurysms? Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 113: 476-491, March 1997.
• Woods, S. and Rizzo, J. Cost effectiveness of antidepressant treatment reassessed. British Journal of Psychiatry 170: 257-263, March 1997.
• Rizzo, J., Darr, U., Fischer, M., Johnson, K., Finkle, J., Gusberg, R., Kopf, G., Abbott, T., Shevchenko, I., and Elefteriades, J. Multimodality serial follow-up of thoracic aortic aneurysms. International Journal of Angiology 6: 153-156, Summer 1997.
• Rizzo J. and Simons, W. Variation in compliance among hypertensive patients by drug class: Implications for health care costs. Clinical Therapeutics 19: 1446-1457, November/ December 1997.
• Heller, G., Stowers, S., Hendel, R., Herman, S., Daher, E., Ahlberg, A., Baron, J., Mendes de Leon, C., Rizzo, J., and Wackers, F. Clinical value of acute rest Tc-99M tetrofosmin tomographic myocardial perfusion imaging in patients with acute chest pain and non-diagnostic electrocardiograms. Journal of the American College of Cardiology 31: 1011-1017, April 1998.
• Rizzo, J., Pashko, S., Friedkin, B., Mullahy, J., and Sindelar, J. Linking the Health Utilities Index to National Medical Expenditure Survey data. Pharmacoeconomics 13: 531-541, May 1998.
• Rizzo, J., and Goddeeris, J. The economic returns to hospital admitting privileges. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 23: 483-515, June 1998.
• Coady, M., Rizzo, J., Hammond, G., Kopf, G., and Elefteriades, J. Penetrating ulcer of the thoracic aorta: What is it? How do we recognize it? How do we manage it? Journal of Vascular Surgery 27; 1006-1016, June 1998.
• Rizzo, J., Friedkin, R., Williams, C., Nabors, J., Acampora, D., and Tinetti, M. Health care utilization and costs in a Medicare population by falls status. Medical Care 36: 1174-1188, August 1998.
• Rizzo, J., Coady M., and Elefteriades, J. Procedures for estimating growth rates in thoracic aortic aneurysms. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 51: 747-754, September 1998.
• Rizzo, J., Abbott, T., and Berger, M. The labor productivity effects of chronic back ache in the United States . Medical Care 36: 1471-1488, October 1998.
• Rizzo, J., and Simons, W. Explaining price variations for the inpatient treatment of congestive heart failure. American Journal of Managed Care 4: 1543-1558, November 1998.
• Brooks, A., Ekleberry, A., McMahon, J., Begle, R., Johnson, M., Rizzo, J., and Zervos, M. Evaluation of clinical practice guidelines on outcome of infection in medical intensive care unit patients. Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice 8: 97-106, January 1999.
• Rizzo, J. Advertising and competition in the ethical pharmaceutical industry: The case of antihypertensive drugs. Journal of Law and Economics 42: 171-198, April 1999.
• Bradley, B., and Rizzo, J. Public information and private search: The Impact of the Patient Self-Determination Act. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 24: 239-274, April 1999.
• Calem, P., Dor, A., and Rizzo, J. Evaluating hospital mergers under alternative welfare criteria. Journal of Economics and Business 51: 197-213, May/June 1999.
• Rizzo, J. and Sindelar, J. Linking health-related quality of life indicators to large national data sets. PharmacoEconomics 16: 473-482, November 1999.
• Coady, M., Davies, R., Roberts, M., Goldstein, L., Rogalski, M., Rizzo, J., Hammond, G., Kopf, G., and Elefteriades, J. Familial patterns of thoracic aortic aneurysms. Archives of Surgery 134: 361-367, April 1999.
• Scholl, F., Coady, M., Davies, R., Rizzo, J., Hammond, G., Kopf, G., and Elefteriades, J. Interval or non-operative management of type A aortic dissections. Archives of Surgery 134: 405-406, April 1999.
• Coady, M., Rizzo, J., Hammond, G., Kopf, G., and Elefteriades, J. Surgical intervention criteria for thoracic aortic aneurysms: A study of growth rates and complications. Annals of Thoracic Surgery 67: 1922-1926, June 1999.
• Elefteriades, J., Lovoulos, C., Coady, M., Tellides, G., Kopf, G., and Rizzo, J. Management of descending aortic dissection. Annals of Thoracic Surgery 67: 2002-2005, June 1999.
• Elefteriades, J., Rizzo, J., Coady, M. Thoracic aorta. Radiology 211: 889, June 1999.
• Mitler, L., Rizzo, J., Horwitz S. Physician gender and cesarean sections. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 53: 1030-1035, October 2000.
• Rizzo, J., Bogardus, S., Leo-Summers, L., Williams, C., Acampora, D., and Inouye, S. A multicomponent targeted intervention to prevent delirium in hospitalized older patients: What is the economic value? Medical Care 39: 740-752, July 2001.
• Goldstein, L., Davies, R., Rizzo, J., Davila, J., Cooperberg, M., Shaw, R., Kopf, G., Elefteriades, J. Stroke in surgery of the thoracic aorta: Incidence, impact, etiology, and prevention. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 122: 935-945, November 2001.
• Davies , R., Goldstein, L., Coady, M., Tittle, S., Rizzo, J., Kopf, G., and Elefteriades, J. Yearly rupture/dissection rates for thoracic aortic dissection: simple prediction based on size. Annals of Thoracic Surgery 73;17-27 (discussion 27-28), January 2002.
• Tittle, S., Lynch, R., Cole, P., Rizzo, J., Kopf, G., Elefteriades, J. Midterm follow-up of penetrating ulcer and intramuralhematoma of the aorta. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 123; 6, June 2002.
• McCarthy, P., Walls, T., Cicchetti, D., Mayes, L., Rizzo, J., Lopez-Benitez J., Sallown, S., Baron, M., Fink, H., Anderson, M., Little, T., LaCamera R., and Freudigam, K. Prediction of resource use during acute pediatric illnesses. Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine 157; 990-996, October 2003.
• Rizzo, J., and Zeckhauser, R. Reference incomes, loss aversion, and physician behavior. Review of Economics and Statistics 85; 909-922, November 2003.
• Rizzo J, Goetzel, R., Ozminkowski, R. Prescription to over-the counter switching of drugs: evidence and implications for non-sedating antihistamines. Disease Management and Health Outcomes 13: 83-92, 2005.
• Achneck, H., Modi, B., Shaw, C., Rizzo, J., Albornoz, G., Fusco, D., Elefteriades, J. Ascending thoracic aneurysms are associated with decreased systemic atherosclerosis. Chest 128: 1580-1586, September 2005.
• Rizzo, J. Are HMOs bad for health maintenance? Health Economics 14; 1117-1131, November 2005.
• Rizzo, J., and Zeckhauser, R. Pushing income to reference points: why do male doctors earn more? Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (in press).
• Coady, M., Rizzo, J., Goldstein, L., and Elefteriades, J. Natural history, pathogenesis,and etiology of thoracic aortic aneurysms and dissections. Cardiology Clinics 17: 615-635, November 1999.
• Coady, M., Rizzo, J., and Elefteriades, J. Developing surgical intervention criteria for thoracic aortic aneurysms.Cardiology Clinics 17: 827-839, November 1999.
• Coady, M., Rizzo, J., and Elefteriades, J. Pathologic variants of thoracic aortic dissections: Penetrating atherosclerotic ulcers and intramural hematomas. Cardiology Clinics 17: 637-657, November 1999.
• Coady, M., Rizzo, J., and Elefteriades, J. Interpreting data on thoracic aortic aneurysms: Statistical issues. Cardiology Clinics 17: 797-805, November 1999.
• Rizzo, J. The labor productivity costs of smoking in the United States. In: Economic Analysis of Substance Use and Abuse. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2001.

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